00                 SPONSOR SUBSTITUTE FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 348                                                              
01 "An Act relating to the adoption of regulations by the Board of Game."                                                  
02 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
03    * Section 1. AS 16.05.255(a) is amended to read:                                                                   
04            (a)  The Board of Game may adopt regulations it considers advisable in                                       
05       accordance with AS 44.62 (Administrative Procedure Act) for                                                       
06                 (1)  setting apart game reserve areas, refuges, and sanctuaries in the                                  
07       water or on the land of the state over which it has jurisdiction, subject to the approval                         
08       of the legislature;                                                                                               
09                 (2)  establishing open and closed seasons and areas for the taking of                                   
10       game as a means to allocate the asset of game;                                                                
11                 (3)  establishing the means and methods employed in the pursuit,                                        
12       capture, taking, and transport of game as a means to allocate the asset of game,                              
13       including regulations, consistent with resource conservation and development goals,                               
14       establishing means and methods that may be employed by persons with physical                                      
15       disabilities;                                                                                                     

01                 (4)  setting quotas, bag limits, harvest levels, and sex, age, and size                                 
02       limitations on the taking of game as a means to allocate the asset of game;                                   
03                 (5)  classifying game as game birds, song birds, big game animals, fur                                  
04       bearing animals, predators, or other categories;                                                                  
05                 (6)  methods, means, and harvest levels necessary to control predation                                  
06       and competition among game assets in the state;                                                               
07                 (7)  watershed and habitat improvement, and management,                                                 
08       conservation, protection, use, disposal, propagation, and stocking of game;                                       
09                 (8)  prohibiting the live capture, possession, transport, or release of                                 
10       native or exotic game or their eggs;                                                                              
11                 (9)  establishing the times and dates during which the issuance of game                                 
12       licenses, permits, and registrations and the transfer of permits and registrations                                
13       between registration areas and game management units or subunits is allowed;                                      
14                 (10)  regulating sport hunting and subsistence hunting as needed for the                                
15       conservation, development, and preferential use [UTILIZATION] of game;                                        
16                 (11)  taking game to ensure public safety;                                                              
17                 (12)  regulating the activities of persons licensed to control nuisance                                 
18       wild birds and nuisance wild small mammals;                                                                       
19                 (13)  promoting hunting and trapping and preserving the heritage of                                     
20       hunting and trapping in the state.